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Land Quotes
"We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating."
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"Herein lies our problem. If we level that much land to grow rice and whatever, then no other animal could live there except for some insect pest species. Which is very unfortunate."
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"Can you imagine what Bush would say if someone like Hugo Chavez asked him for a little piece of land to install a military base, and he only wanted to plant a Venezuelan flag there?"
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"Buckwheat may be planted later than any similar crop, and often does well on old meadows or waste land that can be broken after the more exacting crops are planted."
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"We feel the value is in the land, not the improvements."
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"The thing generally raised on city land is taxes."
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"It is true that we aspire to our ancient land. But what we want in that ancient land is a new blossoming of the Jewish spirit."
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"While waiting for a Moses to lead us into the promised land, we have forgotten how to walk."
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"If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up."
"Whenever, then, the usual and ordinary rate of the profits of agricultural stock, and all the outgoings belonging to the cultivation of land, are together equal to the value of the whole produce, there can be no rent."
"Western concepts of ownership and privatization came in and clashed with that. So land began to be exchanged."
"You can never reach the promised land. You can march towards it."
"I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none."
"An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia."
"Pouring concrete on land you don't own is called a calculated risk, if you don't pour you loose millions."
"Protecting all this land, working with the President to establish all these monuments, to, you know... I think the President has a land protection record that's second to no one in this century, maybe Teddy Roosevelt."
"I approached Red Square three times, trying to find somewhere to land, before discovering a wide bridge nearby. I landed there and taxied into Red Square."
"When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent."
"The next summer, 1794, corn grew dear, and distress began in our land."
"The ranch was raw land when I bought it and, for better or worse, I have designed every aspect of it from the corrals, the arena, to the barn, to the house."
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"Heinlein never had a best-seller. Even, I think, with Stranger in a Strange Land, I don't think it was actually on the New York Times best seller list."
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"Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi."
"The holy land was supposed to be spotless, a serious equivalent of Disneyland in which not a single candy wrapper is to stay on the ground for more than a few minutes."
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"Maintaining healthy forests is essential to those who make a living from the land and for those of us who use them for recreational purposes."
"We should embrace our immigrant roots and recognize that newcomers to our land are not part of the problem, they are part of the solution."
"There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude."
"Eurasia ended up with the most domesticated animal species in part because it's the world's largest land mass and offered the most wild species to begin with."
"Down in the south, it's how we find the brownfield sites without taking too much land take to meet the tremendous demand for housing, and that's what I've done."
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"The city is as large as Seville or Cordova; its streets, I speak of the principal ones, are very wide and straight; some of these, and all the inferior ones, are half land and half water, and are navigated by canoes."
"In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin."
"When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system."
"I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land."
"The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness."
"Land bridges were everywhere during the extinction, many species were spreading, and there were many diseases."
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